I. G. Farben
Iglesias, Julio
Illinois
India
Indiana
Indonesia
Ingenieros, José
Ingrao, Pietro
Innocent IV, Pope
Inquisition
Institute for Religious Works
Inter-American Development Bank
International Institute of Strategic Studies
International Labor Organization
International Monetary Fund
International Plant Medicine Corporation
Internet
Iran
Iraq
Isabella, Queen
Isenberg, Jerry
Islam
Israel
Isto é
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jack the Ripper
Jackson, Michael
Jakarta
Jamaica
Japan
Java Sea
Jazadji, Afanásio
Jefferson, Thomas
Jesus
Joan of Arc
Joseph, Saint
Joynt, Vernon
Jujuy
Jumbo supermarkets
Kaála
Kant, Immanuel
Karliner, Joshua
Kennedy Heights
Kent, Clark
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Kenya
Kenzo
King, Martin Luther Jr.
King, Rodney
Kissinger, Henry
Klee, Paul
Klöckner
Kremlin
Ku Klux Klan
Kuwait
Laden, Osama bin
Lagos
Laguna Beach
Lancet
Landa, Diego de
LaRocque, Gene
Las Vegas
Latin America
Latvia
Lavandero, Jorge
LCN
Le Bon, Gustave
Ledesma sugar refinery
Leguía, Augusto
Lélia
Leonardo da Vinci
Leoncico
Letelier, Orlando
Lewinsky, Monica
Liberty (magazine)
“Liberty” prison
Lima
Linnaeus, Carolus
Lithuania
“Live Longer”
Lolonois, François
Lombroso, Cesare
London
López Vigil, José Ignacio
L’Oréal
Los Angeles
“lost cities”
Louisiana
Love, Jack
Luxembourg
Magalhães, Antonio Carlos
Maimonides
Malaguti, Vera
Malaysia
Mali
Maluf, Paulo
Managua
Mandela, Nelson
Maní de Yucatán
Manila
Maranhão
Marbella
Marcinkus, Paul
Marcos, Ferdinand
Marcos, Subcommandante
Mark Correctional Systems
Marlboro
Márquez, Hugo
Mars
“Marseillaise”
Marx, Karl
MasterCard
Mata, Lídice da
Matamoros
Max-Neef, Manfred
Mayan Golf Club
McClure, Diane
McDonald’s
McDougall, James Alexander
McNamara, Joe
McNamara, Robert
Medellín
Mediterranean Sea
Menem, Carlos
Menzel, Peter
Mercedes
El Mercurio
Mercury
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
Metropolitan Commission for the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution
Mexico
Mexico City
Miami
Michelini, Zelmar
Middle Ages
Middle East
Mikhalkov, Nikita
Milan
Miralles, Norma
Misiones (Argentina)
Mobius, Mark
Mobutu Sese Seko
Modigliani, Amedeo
Modu-Form
Mohammed
Moledo, Leonardo
Moll, Eladio
Moloch
Mongolia
Monsanto
Monsiváis, Carlos
Montevideo
Montreal
Moonlight on a Breeze
Morgan, Henry
Morris, David
Morrison, Toni
Mortal Kombat
Moscow
Moses
Motor Coach Industries
Mott, Luiz
Moulian, Tomás
Movement of the Landless
Mozambique
“Mr. Ten Percent”
Multilateral Anti-Drug Center
Murdoch, Rupert
Murray, Charles
Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Nabuco, Joaquim
La Nación
Nagasaki
Napoleon
Nassau
National Anti-Drug Strategy
National Conference on Children (Peru)
National Criminal Justice Commission
National Rifle Association
National Security Agency (NSA)
National Shooting Sports Foundation
Navarro, Ricardo
Navy (Argentina)
Nepal
Nevada
New Catechism
New England Firearms
New World
New York
New York Stock Exchange
New York Times
New Zealand
Newsweek
Nicaragua
Nicolaides, Cristino
Niger River
Nigeria
Nik
Nike
1984
El Niño
Nixon, Richard
Noah
Nobel Peace Prize
North, Oliver
NSA (see National Security Agency)
Nuevo Laredo
Obando, Cardinal
El Observador
Odysseus
Oklahoma
Old Antonio
Omega
Operation Desert Storm
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Ortega, Humberto
Orwell, George
Oscars
Oviedo, General
P-2 Lodge
Pachamama
Pacific Ocean
Página
Pakistan
Palenque
Palma, Ricardo
Palmares
Panama
Pan-American Children’s Congress
Pandora
Paracelsus
Paraguay
Paris
Patagonia
Patent Office (U.S.)
Paul, Saint
“Peace and Justice”
Peking
Pentagon
Pepsi-Cola
Pereira
Pérez, Carlos Andrés
Pericles
Peru
Pescarmona, Enrique
Peters, Arno
Petti, Michael A.
Philip Morris
Philippines
Picasso, Pablo
Pinochet, Augusto
Platía, Marta
Platt, Anthony
Plaza de Mayo
Pocahontas
Port-au-Prince
Pôrto Alegre
Portugal
Potosí
Praia de Belas mall
Prats, Carlos
Puerto Rico
Puñales, Adauto
Qaddafi, Muammar al-
Quilmes
Quito
Rambo
Ramonet, Ignacio
Rapid (Vienna)
Rationalist Press Association
Reader’s Digest
Reagan, Ronald
Recife
Red Cross
Rede Globo
Renaissance
René Moreno, Gabriel
Reno
Richmond
Ricupero, Rubens
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de la Plata
Rio Grande
Rio Summit
Ríos Montt, Efraín
Rivalto, Giordano da
Robinson, Jackie
Rockefeller, John D.
Rockefeller family
Rodgers, Dennis
Rodin, Auguste
Rodrigues, Raymundo Nina
Rolex
Romania
Rome
Romero, Oscar Arnulfo
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roraima
Rothschilds
Royal Central African Museum
Royal Ordinance
Rubin, William
Russia
Rwanda
Sainsbury
Saint-Jean, Ibérico
Salgado, Sabastião
Salinas, Carlos
Salinas, Raúl
Salta
San Andrés Itzapa
San Cristóbal de las Casas
San Diego
San Francisco
San Isidro
San José (Costa Rica)
San Luis
San Salvador
Santiago
Santo Domingo
Santos, Galindo Jesús dos
São Gonçalo de Amarante
São Paulo
Saramago, José
Sarlo, Beatriz
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino
Saro-Wiwa, Ken
Satan
Saturn
Saudi Arabia
Scandinavia
School of the Americas
School of Psychology (Montevideo)
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Scilingo, Adolfo
Scotland
Scripture
Seattle Art Museum
Security Council (UN)
Senegal
Serres, Etienne
Shakespeare, William
Shell
Sicily
Siemens
Simpson, O.J.
Sindona, Michele
Social Democratic Party (Germany)
Société de Banque Suisse
Sofremi
Somalia
Somoza dynasty
Sony
Soros, George
South Africa
South America
South American Police Congress
South Korea
Southern Command
Southern Cone
Souza, Hebert de
Soviet Union
Soyinka, Wole
Spain
Spencer, Herbert
Speth, James Gustave
Der Spiegel
Spiewak, Martin
Sri Lanka
Stallone, Sylvester
Standard Oil of California
Stanford University
Stavenhagen, Rodolfo
Steel, Helen
Sudan
Suharto, Ahmed
Summers, Lawrence
Superman
Surinam
Sweden
Switzerland
“Switzerland of America”
Taiwan
Tantalus
Tanzania
Tarzan
Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI)
Telebras
Televisa
Tell, William
Tenochtitlán
Terkel, Studs
Terminator, the
Texaco
Texas
Thailand
Thatcher, Margaret
Third World
Thirteen
Thugwane, Josiah
Tienanmen Square
Tietmeyer, Hans
Time Warner/CNN
Times (London)
Timişoara
Tin-hai
Todman, Terence
Torres-García, Joaquín
Touraine, Alain
Toynbee, Arnold
Toyota Cup
Traoré, Moussa
Trujillo, Rafael Leónidas
Tucumán
Turgenev, Ivan
Turkey
Twain, Mark
Twenty-Seven
UNCTAD (see United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
UNESCO
UNICEF
Union Carbide
Union des Banques Suisses
United Church of Christ
United Kingdom
United Nations
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
United Nations Development Program
United States
Uruguay
U.S. Public Health Service
US West
Vacher de Lapouge, Georges
Vancouver
Vanderbilt, Cornelius Jr.
Vatican
Veja
Venezuela
Verissimo, Luiz Fernando
Viacom
Victoria, Queen
Vidal, Gore
Videla, Jorge Rafael
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Villa, Pancho
Villa Fiorito
Violence Policy Center
Virgin Mary
Virginia
Visa
Voltaire
Walker, William
Wall Street
Wallraff, Günter
Washington, D.C.
Watergate
Waterloo
Wayne, Bruce
Westinghouse
White House
Wilches, Gustavo
Wild Blue
Wild West
The Witches’ Hammer
Wolfensohn, James
Woods, Tiger
Workers Party (Brazil)
World Bank
World Commission on Environment and Development
World Cup
World Health Organization
World Research Group
Worldwatch Institute
Yabrán, Alfredo
Yeltsin, Boris
Yokohama
Ypacaraí
Yucatán
Yugoslavia
Zaffaroni, Eugenio Raúl
Zaugg, Toto
Zelicovich, Roberto
Zerão stadium
Ziegler, Jean
Zurich
Zurita, Félix
Zweig, Stefan
ALSO BY EDUARDO GALEANO
Open Veins of Latin America
Days and Nights of Love and War
Memory of Fire
1: Genesis
2: Faces and Masks
3: Century of the Wind
The Book of Embraces
We Say No
Walking Words
Soccer in Sun and Shadow
Praise for Eduardo Galeano’s Upside Down
“This is arguably Galeano’s most spirited and eloquent examination of our topsy-turvy modern world—a ticking literary hand grenade waiting to detonate in the mind of the reader.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A ferocious, poetic, mischievous, and chilling survey of political and economic systems of control around the world … scarily persuasive and acidly humorous.”
—Greg Villepique, Salon.com
“Galeano’s blend of fictional forms, autobiography, and radical social critique remains fresh for readers who yearn to find literary works with a political compass.… To read him is to step full-body through his story windows, bypassing the potholes in the brain, walking and breathing, even as bruises flicker ahead.”
—Le
nora Todaro, The Village Voice
“Vintage Galeano, a bit of journalism, a touch of satire, and great sheaves of moral outrage … and he makes it all deliciously palatable with a bawdy poet’s laugh.”
—Andrew Nikiforuk, Toronto Globe & Mail
“Deftly deconstructing postmodern social truths, Galeano shows that greed’s reach has devastated every part of the earth and implicated rich and poor alike in a culture of injustice, materialism, and fear. Cynical as his outlook may be, Galeano writes with compassion and erudite wit.… More important, Galeano shelters hope.”
—Elizabeth Shostak, New Age
“Brilliant, compelling … If one senses a dark and bitter sense of humor here, as well as fury and condemnation, it’s because Galeano insists on humanizing and personalizing his analysis.”
—Anthony Arnove, In These Times
“Somewhere between a radical manifesto and a Biercian Devil’s Dictionary, it builds Galeano’s satiric passion into something like a time capsule of our world. A great book by one of the world’s most remarkable writers.”
—Jeff Simon, Buffalo News
“Well documented, full of revealing anecdotes … Galeano has a great deal to say about the ‘globalitarian’ world.”
—David Wise, The Stranger (Seattle)
“Here is a book that reveals the important and pressing social and moral issues not covered in the presidential campaign of 2000. Here is a book that will convince you of the need to wed spirituality to politics. Here is a book that will challenge you to find ways to incarnate the practice of justice for all your days.”
—Frederic and Mary Ann Brussati, Spirituality & Health
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Originally published in the Spanish language in 1998 by Siglo Veintiuno Editores (Spain and Mexico), Catálogos (Argentina), Ediciones del Chanchito (Uruguay), Tercer Mundo Editores (Colombia).
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